We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

Take a mind-expanding tour across our solar system, from Earth to Pluto, learning the staggering distances, travel times, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON — Nearly three years after NASA’s ...

Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, ...

Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. Pluto's snow-capped mountains ...

A new study by NASA has found that markings on Pluto are like that of markings on Earth. Using a model like that of meteorologists, the study found evidence of snow and ice that up to now has only ...

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed ...

NASA selected two proposals Wednesday for possible fly-by missions to faraway Pluto, keeping alive the possibility it will launch a spacecraft to the yet-unexplored planet. The National Aeronautics ...

Could there be life in Pluto’s liquid water ocean? If so, the “habitable zones” around distant stars where astronomers look for signs of life must be dramatically larger than anyone thought. If life ...

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...